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• 21 nov 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Material culture and the writing of history: the case of African-Americans

  Cette journée explore les écritures alternatives de l’histoire qu’ont mis en œuvre les Africains-Américains au travers de leur culture matérielle depuis la fin du XVIII^e siècle, en parallèle des histoires plus « classiques » que les historiens noirs produisaient également. Nous nous intéresserons aux objets produits par les Africains-Américains et destinés à retracer leur histoire : patchworks, scrapbooks, cahiers de recettes manuscrites, livres d’enfants, livres de musique et partitions musicales etc. Il s’agira surtout d’examiner les intentions des auteurs (contexte politique et idéologique), les conditions de production de ces objets (matériaux utilisés, méthodes et repères), la distribution, la réception et la transmission des objets. Mais il faudra également s’interroger sur la manière dont les historiens actuels utilisent et interprètent ces objets (Ellen Garvey, Writing with Scissors). Dans cette perspective, nous étendrons notre réflexion aux fouilles archéologiques qui sont menées sur les anciennes plantations (Monticello), ou dans les villes nord-américaines, et qui renouvellent notre connaissance de l’histoire des esclaves depuis quelques décennies. De même que nous nous intéresserons à la préservation privée de ces traces matérielles.

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• 01 sep 2014

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Displacement, Transgression and Dissent

  France, Great Britain and the American Colonies (c.1600-1800)

  This young researchers' conference sets out to examine norms and transgessions in 17th- and 18th-century France, Great Britain and early America, in relation to issues such as knowledge and science, religious dissent and political radicalism, the ontological status of man, definitions of reason and forms of unreason, including melancholy and madness, new discourses of body and mind, including those that shaped concepts of sexual behaviour deemed abnormal or contrary to Nature, the emergence of a political sphere, the beginnings of a public sphere...The aim of the conference will be to explore how these and related issues were explored in literary and artistic forms, as for example in poetry, satirical pamphlets, travel writings and utopias, drama and theological or moral controversies.

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• 04 jui 2014

  05 jui 2014

  06 jui 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - America

  North American Studies in France and Europe

  State of the Art and Future Prospects

  In 1980, François Furet established the first visiting chair in North American studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in partnership with the French-American Foundation. Yet, it was not until 1984 and the election of Jean Heffer as permanent full professor that the Center for North American Studies (CENA) came into being. Despite pioneering efforts in some English departments and the creation of the first university chair in North American history at the Sorbonne in 1967, there was significant disparity between the importance of the USA in the contemporary world and the weakness of North American studies in France. Over the last thirty years and under the supervision of Jean Heffer and François Weil, the CENA has become one of the leading institutions for North American scholarship in France and Europe.

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• 15 jan 2014

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Publication Grants: (pre-1980) historical American art

  2014 Terra Foundation Academic Awards, Fellowships & Grants

  These grants provide support for publication projects on historical American art (pre-1980) that make a significant contribution to scholarship and have an international dimension. Projects may include translations of texts on American art; publications written by non-U.S. scholars or those with a significant number of non-U.S. contributors; and publications with a focused thesis exploring American art in an international context. Projects must be under contract for publication. Books may receive up to $30,000; articles may receive up to $3,000. For more information, please visit our website.

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• 15 jan 2014

  Giverny

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Terra Summer Residency Fellowships

  2014 Terra Foundation Academic Awards, Fellowships & Grants

  These eight-week residential fellowships provide the opportunity to pursue individual work and research in a community of peers while being mentored by senior artists and scholars. Ten fellowships are awarded annually to doctoral students at an advanced stage of research and writing on pre-1980 American art and visual culture and to artists with a master’s degree.

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• 16 déc 2013

  14 mar 2014

  15 déc 2014

  Chicago

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Academic Program Grants

  2014 Terra Foundation Academic Awards, Fellowships & Grants

  These grants provide support for symposia, colloquia, and scholarly convenings on American art that take place in Chicago or outside the United States; or that take place within the United States and examine American art within an international context and/or include a significant number of international participants.

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